SUSE Report: High Cloud Adoption In Indonesia Follows Security Concerns

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JAKARTA - A report from SUSE, entitled 'Securing the Cloud' Asia Pacific 2024, reveals that 84 percent of IT decision makers in Asia Pacific plan to migrate their workload to the cloud or edge.

In Indonesia, this percentage even reaches 94 percent. This reflects a significant potential for adopting the cloud in the country, because currently, only 28.2 percent of the workload is in the cloud.

This report also highlights that the wider adoption of the cloud has raised new concerns about security. Overall, 57 percent of respondents admitted that data privacy and security were the main concerns, followed by concerns regarding AI-backed cyberattacks (55 percent).

Meanwhile in Indonesia, this concern is more prominent than other Asian Pacific countries. Where as many as 79 percent of respondents stated privacy and security were the main concerns, followed by AI-backed cyberattacks (72 percent) and vulnerabilities in the AI supply chain (43 percent).

In connection with this incident, the SUSE report also shows that the Asia Pacific region often faces cloud and edge-related security incidents.

64 percent confirmed at least one similar incident in the past 12 months, while 62 percent reported at least one edge-related security breach in the same period.

Indonesia was specifically also affected, where 31 percent of respondents reported five or more incidents related to edges that occurred in the same period.

To reduce this threat, Indonesian IT leaders rely heavily on security measures such as Cloud solutions (CPSM, CWPP, or CNAPP), which are widely adopted by 59 percent of respondents higher than the Asia Pacific average.

Other general practices carried out to mitigate this threat according to the SUSE report, including safety automation (53 percent) and also the protection of DoS or DDoS (47 percent).